"Dad, I need help with my homework". Dad replied, "Hang on". What does "Hang on" mean in this situation?
To wait for a moment until he could help him.
15
"Have a seat" the teacher said to us as we entered the room. What does "Have a seat" mean in this situation?
To sit down in the stairs
20
All the kids were screaming in the classroom. The teacher exclaimed, "You're driving me up the wall". What does the phrase, "you're driving me up the wall" mean in this situation.
The children were annoying her.
15
Jame's mother told him how much she appreciated that he "bent over backwards" to help her get ready.
James did everything he could possibly do to help her.
15
When Cody walked into his house he immediately knew that something "fishy" was going on. All the lights were off in the house even though he knew his mom and brother were home.
Something weird was happening.
20
When he walked offstage after his performance, his dad said, "Wow, you really knocked my socks off"
The performance had amazed and and surprised his dad.
15
Julian knew Henry wanted to go to Disney Land. He ran in one day and told him he had tickets to go. Henry asked, "are you pulling my leg?"
Are you teasing or making a joke?
25
On vacation, the family was just going to "play it by ear" and not make a plan.
Make up the plan as they went instead of planning everything out.
15
Henry asked Julian if he had remembered to bring his iPad to speech? Julian said that it had slipped his mind
He forgot to bring it.
5
The ball went flying across my friends room and broke his mother's favorite lamp. "You're in hot water now!" we said.
